Transformations in slavery : a history of slavery in Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovejoy, Paul E.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

African studies series ; 117.

African studies ; [117]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Africa--History.

Slavery.

Africa.

History.

Slave trade--Africa--History.

Slave trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 381 pages.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Africa and slavery

On the frontiers of Islam, 1400-1600

The export trade in slaves, 1600-1800

The enslavement of Africans, 1600-1800

The organization of slave marketing, 1600-1800

Relationships of dependency, 1600-1800

The nineteenth-century slave trade

Slavery and "legitimate trade" on the west African coast

Slavery in the savanna during the era of the Jihads

Slavery in central, southern, and eastern Africa in the nineteenth century

The abolitionist impulse

Slavery in the political economy of Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-363) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781139014946

1139014943

Publisher Number:

99967570491

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.